Noun

(en-noun)

The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.

* Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)

If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.

*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)

, chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}

Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.

* (w), xxxii. 18

The voice of them that shout for mastery .

* , ix. 25.

Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.

* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

O, but to have gulled him / Had been a mastery .

(label) Contest for superiority.

(Holland)

(label) A masterly operation; a feat.

* (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)

I will do a maistrie ere I go.

(label) The philosopher's stone.

The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.

* (John Tillotson) (1630-1694)

He could attain to a mastery in all languages.

* (John Locke) (1632-1705)

The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.

Noun

(ascendancies)

The process or period of one's ascent

Supremacy; superiority; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Spurs ended the half in the ascendancy and Van der Vaart was again inches away from giving them the lead when he met Bale's cross but his header flew wide.}}

A class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century

* [W. B. Yeats] belonged not to the ascendancy class but to the protestant bourgeoisie.'' – Terry Eagleton, ''New Left Review , 1975